We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Vulnerability Management."This solution has saved the company from unnecessary data loss that occurs due to cyber attacks."
"The initial setup is easy and not complex at all."
"The dashboard is intuitive. You know if you're compliant or not, and then it gives you a remediation plan."
"The solution has intelligence that integrates with a range of threat intelligence feeds, including Check Point's ThreatCloud, to provide real-time intelligence on emerging threats."
"The most valuable feature is the separate environment."
"Assets Management as it provide complete visibility of our workload inkling EC2 instance or Serverless"
"Compliance is becoming an important tool for us as well."
"It offers advanced detection of threats that can harm data from the cloud database."
"In Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, there is an option to enable files. Once you enable that, it will give you all the files in your organization and where they are located in the cloud... That feature is very useful for investigation purposes."
"Shadow IT discovery is the feature I like the most."
"Defender helps us control which applications are being used and gain more security insight into remote and hybrid users based on user identity and log in location. You can also integrate Defender for Cloud Apps with Defender for Endpoint to extend its capabilities."
"All of the features are valuable because all of the features are related."
"I like the alert policies because they are quite robust. It has some built-in templates that we can easily pick up. One of them is the alert for mass downloads, when a particular user is running a massive download on your SharePoint site."
"The general usability of the solution is very straightforward."
"Defender's integration with our identity solutions is critical in our current setup."
"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration across different clouds."
"We were demotivated by the lack of native automation modules for the Terraform and Ansible tools."
"Making basic rules is easy, but it's complex if you want to do something a little more nuanced. I've been unable to make some rules that I wanted. I couldn't evaluate some values or parameters of the components I look for. I haven't always been able to assess them."
"The Check Point Infinity admin portal sometimes freezes."
"In Dome9, there should be a policy validation option where we can validate the policy before we push it into production."
"Their service needs improvement."
"Timely updates and upgrades to meet modern technological changes could help improve performance and limit the chances of downtime."
"Scalability, particularly in workload protection, is an area that needs improvement."
"Check Point tools need to improve the latency in the portal since they take a long time to load."
"In the future, I would like to see more plug-and-play capabilities that use AI to tell you what needs to be done. It would be helpful if it scanned our devices and made security suggestions, on a configuration basis."
"It doesn't actually decrease the time to respond. This has been an issue with Microsoft recently. Sometimes, there is a delay when it comes to getting an alert policy email... Sometimes it takes two or three hours for that email to be sent."
"It takes some time to scan and apply the policies when there is some sensitive information. After it applies the policies, it works, but there is a delay. This is something for which we are working with Microsoft."
"I want them to enhance in-session policy."
"We would like to get more information from the endpoint. I don't get enough detailed information right now on why something failed. There is not enough visibility."
"Generally, the pricing can always be improved along with the management system."
"There are some features, such as user navigation content filtering, that are disabled by default, and it probably makes sense to enable them by default."
"This service would be better if it had a separate license, only for this service, that could be used to track usage."
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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 5th in Vulnerability Management with 58 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is ranked 2nd in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 30 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps writes "Integrates well and helps us in protecting sensitive information, but takes time to scan and apply the policies and cannot detect everything we need". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR, whereas Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Qualys VMDR.
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